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Saturday 23 March @8pm How To Blow Up A Pipeline (15)

Here is a fiercely watchable thriller which had me biting my nails down to the wrists. It is inspired partly by Andreas Malm’s radical eco-activist manifesto of the same title, and partly – in fact, almost pedantically – by the heist classic Reservoir Dogs. A young crew of protesters, each individually getting a backstory flashback which sometimes jumps into the drama at a cliffhanger moment, come together for the big job, knowing each other as little as Tarantino’s colour-coded bad guys and having similar issues around gunshot wound injury and possible disloyalty. Director and co-screenwriter Daniel Goldhaber applies a fictional imagination to the first two words in the title of Malm’s book, which argues for direct-action property destruction but is not actually a “how to” bomb-making guide.

Goldhaber’s drama shows how this kind of paramilitary adventure might actually happen, month by month, moment by moment, as well as the kind of people who would be sufficiently motivated or reckless to risk decades in federal prison. They are all drawn together by a plan to blow up a west Texas oil pipeline, disrupt the flow and drive its price ruinously up. Peter Bradshaw.

Saturday 30 March @8pm One Life (12)

UK, 2023, 105 minutes, 12 certificate

Directed by Jason Hawkes, starring Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Lena Olin, Jonathan Pryce

For several decades after the 2nd World War, a stockbroker led a quiet life, raising a family, and eventually retiring to his home in Maidenhead, generally keeping out of trouble. He campaigned on matters that he felt moved by. Occasionally he would bring an issue of significance to the editor of the Maidenhead Advertiser, hoping to give it the air of publicity. Little did that editor know that the really big story was right there in front of him; Nicholas Winton – described by many as Britain’s Schindler – had successfully saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children rescued from Prague ahead of the German invasion. Together with colleagues, and the indefatigable efforts of his persuasive mother (Bonham Carter), he organised the evacuation and adoption of children into British homes, saving them from concentration camps and allowing them to make their lives in the UK. Hawkes’ powerfully moving film tells a story that was largely unknown until an episode of This Life in 1988. It moves between the late 1930s and the young Nicholas’ (Flynn) efforts – meeting and gaining the trust of the refugee population living in treacherous conditions; battling home office bureaucracy – and the 1980s when an older Nicholas (Hopkins) sorts out his papers, attempting to find a home for an important part of his archive, still haunted by the knowledge of those children he couldn’t save. A rousing and incredible true story of remarkable heroism, one man’s unwillingness to do nothing, and a legion of ordinary people who stepped in to help. Watch the trailer here

Sunday 7 April @7pm Anatomy of a Fall (15)

Saturday 13 April @8pm Priscilla (15)


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